Microsoft India on Monday launched the 'Touch Mouse' that makes everyday tasks more fluid and intuitive by using natural gestures instead of clicks. Designed exclusively for Windows 7, the new Touch Mouse combines the virtues of the old familiar mouse with multi-touch gestures.

MS launches Touch Mouse for Windows 7

Business Standard

Chennai-based IT solutions firm Zylog Systems Ltd is looking to increase its presence in Australia by setting up its own office there with an initial investment of around $2.5 million (around Rs 12 crore). Besides, its plans for acquisition, mainly in the ERP space, in the range of $75 million to $100 million, is ongoing, said company officials.

Zylog Systems plans offices in Australia

Sumant Kasliwal, a banker and board member to some of India&rsquo;s best known companies in e-commerce, undoubtedly got a little bored watching all the recent action in the industry from the wings. So much so that Kasliwal, a private equity veteran with more than ten years of experience, quit his job at ICICI Venture to start his own e-commerce firm.

BS People: Sumant Kasliwal

At a time when e-mail and many other forms of electronic communication are essentially free, wireless carriers are still charging as much as 20 cents to send a text message to a phone, and another 20 cents to receive it.

Free texts may snatch a chunk of wireless carriers' profits 

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has discussed providing financing to buy the 40 per cent stake in held by Yahoo! Inc with Singapore&rsquo;s Temasek Holdings Pte, according to people familiar with the matter.

Alibaba in talks with Temasek for Yahoo! stake

At a meeting with Apple Inc finance chief Peter Oppenheimer this year, investor Kishore Rao asked the company to tap its billions in cash to pay a dividend.

Jobs' death turns focus on Apple's $76-bn reserves

Researchers at South Korean electronics giant Samsung have reported a breakthrough in light-emitting diode (LED) technology that will allow production of cheaper ultra-large advanced display panels on ordinary glass, such as window panes.

Samsung reports breakthrough in LED technology

Press Trust of India

Abolition of roaming charges as proposed in the draft National Telecom Policy 2011 is expected to result in a revenue loss of around Rs 1,973 crore (about $400 million) for leading telecom service providers.

Telcos may lose Rs 2,000 cr on abolition of roaming charges

Sony Corp recalled 1.6 million Bravia flat-panel TVs sold worldwide since 2007, owing to a faulty component that may cause them to melt or catch fire.

1.6 million Bravia TV sets recalled due to fire risk

In order to promote investment in information technology/information technology enabled services (IT/ITeS) industry and overall development of the sector as well as to increase penetration in tier-II, tier-III and other small cities in the country, the Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), an autonomous society under department of IT, is mulling non-profit linked incentive scheme for the IT/ITeS industry.

STPI mulls non-profit linked incentive scheme for IT/ITeS

Low employee productivity and reduced information technology (IT) bandwidth are the biggest drawbacks of the rise in the use of social media at work, according to a survey.

Hazards of social media at work

Google Inc, the world&rsquo;s biggest search-engine company, increased its US market share to 65.3 per cent in September, up from 64.8 per cent in August, as Yahoo! Inc dropped to less than 16 per cent, according to ComScore Inc.

Google's US search market share rises, Yahoo! declines

After increasing its market share from 7.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2010 to 10 per cent in the first quarter this year, Lenovo India is ready to take on Apple, Samsung and domestic tablet PC vendors with its own Lenovo Ideapad and Thinkpad tablets.

Lenovo tablets to take on Samsung, Apple 

Facebook Inc unveiled a long-awaited application for the iPad, offering a tailored version of the world&rsquo;s most popular social-networking service for Apple Inc&rsquo;s best-selling tablet computer.

Facebook introduces long-awaited iPad app

Social networking site Facebook has acquired Friend.Ly, a social question-and-answer service, for an undisclosed amount.

Facebook buys start-up Friend.Ly

Software giant Microsoft today announced the launch of its latest version of Windows Phone operating system in the country, aiming to cash in on the burgeoning market for smart phones in India.

Microsoft launches new Windows Phone software in India

Sony Corp, the world&rsquo;s second-largest maker of video-game machines, temporarily suspended about 93,000 user accounts of its online gaming and entertainment services after finding they were hacked.

Hackers target Sony services

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the launch of its latest version of the Windows Phone operating system, Mango- for India, in a bid to claw back into the smartphone arena that is dominated by Apple and Google.

Microsoft launches Mango OS in India

Corporate users of BlackBerry smartphones had to deal with disrupted services for the third consecutive day on Wednesday. Financial institutions, banks and other companies, which use enterprise email services by BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM), were affected.

Users get BlackBerry blues, corporate productivity hit

Yahoo has exited Consim Info Pvt Ltd by selling 12 per cent stake to Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund and Canaan Partners for Rs 100 crore. The deal valued the operator of Bharatmatrimony.com at over Rs 800 crore.

Yahoo! exits Consim Info for Rs 100 cr

There are possibly more Indians on online professional network LinkedIn than Britons, Germans, Austrians, Swiss and Australians combined. The only country that has more users on the platform is the United States.

Number of Indian LinkedIn users second only to US

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